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Why Malt the Barley for Beer?

Category: Biology

If yeast can make alcohol directly out of starch, why bother malting the barley before making beer?

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Marzipan Gold Hoard

Category: Archaeology

In 1995 a gold hoard was found at Vittene in Norra Björke parish, Västergötland. Its contents had been amassed over two centuries, and it was committed to the earth in the 3rd century AD.

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Motte and Bailey and Limburger Cheese

Category: Travel

I type this in the hotel lobby while waiting for the train just across the street that will take me to Brussels. The conference closed at 13, I had sandwiches with my colleagues and then set out again for...

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Velvet Bolete Orgy

Category: Food

My wife and I made a short mushrooming excursion to Lake Lundsjön after lunch. Little more than half an hour in the woods garnered us only four species, but huge amounts of one: velvet bolete. We went home early...

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Marsh Meringue

Category: Language

Here are two pieces of convoluted Scandy and English etymology that converge in my head.

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Stockholm Blogmeet 2 September

Category: Blogging

The 6th Aardvarchaeology blogmeet was a friendly three-hour affair with good food, good drink and good company. 'Twas me, Kai, Mårten, Per G, Sigmund, Thinker and Tor, and an excellent time was had at Akkurat. Here's the historical record...

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Me And My Tea

Category: Food

I love black tea, and by that I mean brews from leaves of Camellia sinensis and C. s. assamica, nothing else, milk and sugar please. Earl Grey is basically Assam flavoured with oil of bergamot, a citrus fruit. It's OK...

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Chanterelle Season

Category: Food

Yesterday saw the season's first mushroom expedition. A bit early for real diversity, with only four edible species collected, but on the other hand we found quite a lot of chanterelles.Chanterelle, Kantarell, Cantharellus cibarius Birch bolete, Björksopp, Leccinum scabrum...

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Plastic Pork Phone Decoration

Category: China

Courtesy of my niece-in-law in Hangzhou, here's a piece of plastic hong shao rou, 紅燒肉, red braised pork, intended as a cell phone decoration. Yum!...

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North European Natural Caffeine Source?

Category: Biology

Most psychoactive substances only occur in a small group of closely related plants. But caffeine pops up in widely divergent branches of the floral kingdom.

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Energy is Good, Calories are Bad

Category: Skepticism

What newagers, health nuts and alties seem to be completely ignorant of is that both words originate in physics and that they refer to the same thing.

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May Entertainments

Category: Tree House Ruins

One of these men is an extremely zany comics artist and celebrated wit. The other is a stuffy scholar in an abstruse field. We've had a three-day holiday thanks to Friday being 1 May -- a red-letter day in...

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Hellish Yoghurt Diversification

Category: Food

There is a genre of complaints that I usually find a little silly: the Starbucks breakdown, which occurs when somebody's offered too many options. But now I've run into the problem myself. Yoghurt diversification. I buy most of our milk...

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Hard Core Finnish Easter Dessert

Category: Food

It looks like chocolate fudge cake. It tastes like compact sour-dough rye bread and molasses. It is basically compact sour-dough rye bread and molasses. You have it at Easter, cold, with cream and sugar. It is a Finnish thing....

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Beer Geek Website

Category: Food

When I give talks about Internet subcultures I like to say that I could devote the entire talk to on-line forums for retired Spanish-speaking transvestites. That's how niched groups a global communication network makes possible. Myself, I'm on a Swedish...

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Bagels of the Eastern Geats

Category: Food

Yesterday I made boiled pretzels from Horn, which are basically slightly sweet bagels.

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Mushroom Harvest

Category: Biology

Today we had eleven kinds, most of them hedgehogs and boletes.

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Orkney Food

Category: Food

I'm in the Bangladeshi restaurant Dil Se having a nice chicken achari. I tried to get Orkney mutton, but it was only available on advance order. Seems fitting to have a curry even in this storm-swept outpost of the British...

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Tap Water is Not a Naturally Occurring Substance

Category: Biology

Water suppliers use natural water to make tap water.

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Onion Peel Egg Dye

Category: Art

There's actually a use for onion peel. Wrap it around an egg, wrap egg and peel in aluminium foil, and boil the egg the usual way. Red onion peel dyes the shell yellow, while yellow onion peel dyes it...

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Build Your Life on Eternal Truths

Category: Travel

I just popped out for a burger at Arbee's, and I chose a seat with a good view of the full moon riding high over a Shell gas station. On the wall of the station was a large luminescent...

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Carrot-Eating Video Game Zombies

Category: Children

To get kids to eat veggies, hand them out while they play video games.

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Speaking of Meat in Post-Conquest Britain

Category: History

The elite talked about meat in French at the dinner table.

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Quest for Dick (Spotted) 2

Category: Food

The aroma is lemony sweet with a hint of savour from the beef tallow.

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Quest for Dick (Spotted) 1

Category: Food

Spotted Dick is a steamed, massive, doughy thing. It must be mine.

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Mongolian Cuisine and Cursing

Category: Humour

Dining with polyglot friends (he's a Sinologist who also works with Georgian and Basque and speaks a bewildering variety of Asian languages, she interprets Mongolian and speaks the most exquisite Swedish), my wife and I learned something about Mongolian...

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Unexpected Chicken Sausage

Category: Food

My wife just hit me with some pretty heavy surrealism, suddenly handing me a foot-long yellow can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage. Her mother is visiting with us. The other day, this lady had an appointment with her acupuncturist...

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Cephalopod Noodle Soup

Category: Food

Here's one for Peezee....

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